Ok with job at the weekend, but come in Monday and BORED

[workoholic]

Does anyone else think to themselves at the weekend "my job isn't bad" (mainly when in the shops knowing you can afford stuff). But as soon as Monday comes around you sit at your desk like, 'god I hate my job...' and end up googling career changes / new jobs / salaries better elsewhere / reasons to leave etc..

or is it just me?

@workoholic

Does anyone else think to themselves at the weekend "my job isn't bad" (mainly when in the shops knowing you can afford stuff). But as soon as Monday comes around you sit at your desk like, 'god I hate my job...' and end up googling career changes / new jobs / salaries better elsewhere / reasons to leave etc..

or is it just me?

Haha definitely not just you, when I'm Not at work, I'm happy with life, when I am at work I'm bored stiff and just hate it!!! I definitely need a change! What kind of career do you think you would enjoy?

Thats the problem - I know what I do now is a match hahaha, nothing else I wanna do really.
I am going through issues at the mo where I don't know if I want to 'plod' as much as possible or try to 'step up' and prove myself. Trying to figure out my next life goal. I'm not one to 'see how it goes' I like to plan things and go after it.

I only got promo a few months ago but got into a ploddy mindset for a mental break, but now I am not sure if to go for it and go after the next lot of dollar. Lockdowns have killed my motivation for some reason......!

Me too. I don't have enough to do to fill the days and it's soul destroying.
I have spurts of activity but mostly I just faff about.

I mainly WFH but my employer uses Hub Staff to monitor activity so I have to try to fill the time so they don't think I'm skiving.

I'm happy to plod on but wish I had more to do.
They know I don't have much abs admit that it's their fault for not having time to train me.

I feel more depressed on the days that I have to go in.

If it wasn't well paid and WFH I'd look for something else.

Yup identical. Good salary, great home life balance, love my home life with family and being able to do everything we love together but sit in home office and think god is this it... don’t know how other people I work with have the motivation to do the work as I can’t seem to get motivated or it takes me ages and only a significant deadline could spur me on. Lack of team and people contact are a big contributing factor for me but spend lots of time looking for other jobs during the week but then forget about it over hols and is it so bad?

I have a lack of team also. It's a small business, just me and them.
I have some regular tasks like accounts and shipping but that's it really.
They give me other random stuff to do but I can't fill the days.

They know and keep asking me if I'm ok and saying it's ok not to work my full hours but it doesn't sit well with me.

I do like WFH but I can't help feeling like I should look for something else.

Im the other side of the coin on a zero hours teaching contract. I would like enough work. Or to be paid to be bored...what jobs are you all doing!? I'm craving stability!

I feel the same. Though I do have weeks where I am so busy with short deadlines, I am not bored every week.

I wfh, mainly, I have a small team who are lovely but they wfh permanently. Its quite repetitive. I am dealing with the same issues day in and day out. There's a lot of responsibility but after a few years of doing it, it seems less exciting.

I am pretty much at the top in my organisation. My next step would be MD. The current MD is the owner and won't be stepping down for at least 5 years.

But they pay really well. Far more than anywhere else. I can also manage my own diary to a certain extent. So I am not leaving.

So I decided to return to education. My work is connected to finance and our accounting team so I am going to work my way through AAT courses. Keep my brain going, add some interest and maybe open up new opportunities at work. Won't be a different level but maybe more responsibility or more varied work.